The Prime Minister, Mark Carney, announced that, for the first time in four decades, VIA Rail passenger cars will be built in Canada. The federal government is investing more than $4.7 billion for VIA Rail to acquire and maintain 313 new passenger rail cars from Alstom Canada.
It would be a very comfortable ride though. It’s already more comforable than airplanes, and I was stuck behind freight trains most of the way.